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Film companies sue iiNet ‘for allowing piracy’

Cooee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:06:53 +0000

The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia’s largest internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows.
The action follows months of wrangling between the movie and music industries and ISPs over the lengths to which internet providers need to go to prevent illegal file sharing on their networks.
But while the movie industry has now stepped up its aggression, the music industry has yet to take legal action against any internet providers over the issue. Michael Speck, who between 2004 and 2006 ran the music industry’s landmark case against KaZaA as the head of MIPI, said he believed legal precedents already established and the emergence of filtering technologies meant iiNet would lose the case.
smh.com.au

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Grade Your Press Release

Cooee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:00:41 +0000

HubSpot’s Press Release Grader evaluates your press release and provides a marketing effectiveness score. This score is based upon basic factors from public relations experts including the language and content of the release, plus advanced factors from Internet marketing experts such as links and search engine optimization characteristics.

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Cooee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:23:16 +0000

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ISP Internet Filtering for Senator Conroy

Cooee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:57:17 +0000

Now unless Senator Conroy has Santa’s elves working overtime, in the words of The Castle’s Darryl Kerrigan, tell him he’s dreamin’. Ideally, a participating ISP would provide a filtering solution to a sample of their customer base.

A few weeks back when Senator Scott Ludlam questioned Senator Conroy about filtering, Conroy said his department didn’t have any benchmarks set in regards to what is an acceptable rate of false positives (amongst other things).

somebodythinkofthechildren.com

Australian Gov’t Mandatory ISP Filtering Censorship Plan

Cooee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:43:38 +0000

The Australian Federal Labor Government, which was elected on 24 November 2007, has a ‘plan’ to force all Australian ISPs to implement server-based filtering systems to block access to ‘child pornography’, ‘X-rated material’, ‘violence’, ‘prohibited’ material, ‘inappropriate’ material and ‘unwanted’ material on a secret blacklist compiled by a government agency.

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Search Google: Australian Gov’t Mandatory ISP Filtering Censorship Plan

Senator Stephen Conroy

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Mr Conroy’s Top 5 Shocking Internet Facts:

There are more criminals on the Internet than there are in all seven continents
More males use the Internet than females
The Harry Potter ending was revealed early on the Internet, resulting in childhood depression and in return, childhood obesity
Pornography available on the Internet is responsible for over 58% of crimes1
P Platers use the Internet whilst driving at speeds of over 356Kbs

Visit these websites for more information on how you can stop censorship:

Petitions:
Sign this petition against mandatory Internet filtering in Australia

Organisations:
- Electronic Frontiers Australia
- EFA on Mandatory Filtering

Join these Action Groups:
- No-Censorship Discussion Group
- Australian ISP filtering plan is stupid (FaceBook)
- No Australian Internet Censorship (FaceBook)
- Australians Against The National Filter Plan(FaceBook)

Blogs:
- Somebody Think Of The Children
- Broadbanned Revolution

Websites:
- Internet Censorship & Civil Liberties in Australia
- Libertus.net
- NoCensorship-Australia

The Future of Google’s Search Personalization

Cooee — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:50:10 +0000

In the very near future, you will no longer be able to reliably check your rankings in the Google search engine. As Google moves more toward personalization, it will be even closer to the end of the search engine rankings: no more top rankings or number one ranking for a certain keyword phrase.

searchenginewatch.com

realestate.com.au’s online marketing picks up

Cooee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:19:31 +0000

Strategic search marketing agency, Firstclick today announced that Australia’s most popular real estate website is now an official Firstclick customer. realestate.com.au (REA) chose Firstclick to provide search engine marketing (SEM) services to increase the effectiveness of REA’s online marketing initiatives.

Established in July 2005, Firstclick has built a proven track record over the years of providing quality, tailored search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimisation (SEO) services for large organisations and small and medium size enterprises in Australia and New Zealand.

Firstclick Consulting is a search marketing agency specialising in search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimisation (SEO) to generate quality traffic and increased revenue for our clients.

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LotusJump is an online tool that allows webmasters to manage their own search engine optimization (SEO) efforts

Cooee — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:57:41 +0000

LotusJump was created to provide a simple, effective and efficient SEO platform that anyone can use so if you have a website that sells laptops, you might pick keywords like “cheap laptops online” or “discount dell computers”, etc.

Once you’ve entered your website URL and picked your keywords, LotusJump automatically populates your account with customized Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tasks for you to complete.

The majority of the tasks in your LotusJump account will help you increase the number of inbound links to your site, since linkbuilding is the fastest and most reliable way to improve your website rankings.

Buzz tasks When somebody online mentions any of your keywords, LotusJump creates a task in your account to visit the site where your keyword was mentioned.

Specific, targeted keyword phrases (like “used dell inspiron laptops”) are less competitive, and will take less time rank well on. Broad, general keywords (like “computers”) are more competitive will take longer.

On the contrary, SEO systems enable you to manage your entire SEO campaign with no prior knowledge.

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Artists stage street scenes to lurk in Google maps

Cooee — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:22:44 +0000

Google really did capture those scenes when it sent a car equipped with cameras down Pittsburgh’s Sampsonia Way in May to take photographs for its online maps. But these images and most of the other scenes caught on Sampsonia were staged by artists Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett. The Google feature provides panoramic street-level photographs online so users can get a feel for wherever they might be heading - a virtual reconnaissance mission of sorts.

Like many first-time Street View users, Kinsley and Hewlett, then roommates, typed in their address and found their house. Kinsley and Hewlett soon found themselves discussing surveillance and virtual reality, and began considering how they might explore those issues and Street View through art.

Street View has a video game-like quality that lets users navigate through a street, and Hewlett said she considers the scenes she and Kinsley created as a sort of virtual reward for online explorers. Google - whose own employees posed outside the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., as its Street View vehicle rolled by - joined in the fun in Pittsburgh after Kinsley and Hewlett contacted the company.

Street With a View project: www.streetwithaview.com

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Too many twitters drown out Rudd website

Cooee — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:46:30 +0000

Mr Rudd effectively used internet profiles on MySpace and Facebook and his slick Kevin07 website during last year’s federal election but, since becoming Prime Minister, he hasn’t had much time for the web.

But last night Mr Rudd sent an email to all his supporters informing them of his new website, KevinPM.com.au, which includes links to MySpace, Facebook, a new YouTube account, a Flickr photo sharing page and his newly created Twitter page for broadcasting short snappy text messages.

His Liberal counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull, also has accounts on Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube but, while Mr Rudd is new to Twitter, Mr Turnbull has been communicating with Twitter users since mid-October.

Mr Rudd has 24,479 friends on MySpace and 24,897 fans on Facebook, while Mr Turnbull has 292 MySpace friends and 5000 friends on Facebook.

theage.com.au